Currently the Klondyke Strikes chain has 25
garden centres in the UK making it one of the bigger players
in the garden centre business.

It all started in 1980 when Bob and Dorothy Gault bought
a failing, small garden nursery with the primary purpose of
expanding their camping business.

That business began to struggle but the nursery side of
the business began to take off. Klondyke Garden centres was
born.

Bob and Dorothy then purchased a new site in Stirling, Scotland
to expand their garden centre enterprise. This branch has continued
to this day and and is their flagship garden centre. Livingston
garden centre in West Lothian followed in 1985 and to date they have
have six garden centres in Scotland. One garden centre was acquired
in England under the name of Klondyke which was Lampton Park, Durham
in 1994.

In the same year Bob and Dorthy Gault literally doubled the
number of garden centres they owned by purchasing Strikes Garden
Centres bringing the total to fourteen. Acquisitions proceeded on
over the years with the purchase of Lady Green and Brookside Garden
Centre in 2008 being the most recent. The current total is now 25
garden centres.

For administrative reasons they split the garden centres with
Klondyke being the owner of all six Scottish garden centres and
Strikes responsible for the 19 English and Welsh garden centres. In
March 2011 Bob Gault died and Dorothy Gault was appointed Chairman
(or should that be chairwoman) of the Klondyke Group of garden
centres.

We have reviewed several of the Klondyke / Strikes garden centres
and those are listed below with underline. Click on any of those for
our full review.